Not your average choir girl

There was an incident at work over the Christmas/New Year break, while I was on leave, which resulted in a very serious and negative outcome. It's impossible to determine who was responsible out of my two colleagues, and for that reason I am SO glad that I was on leave and cannot possibly share any responsibility.

However, one of the outcomes is that we now have to record every client referral we do. Originally they were talking about us recording EVERY single client-based task, so every enquiry, every phone call, every fax received... and we may yet get to that point, but for now we're just recording referrals.

Today was the first day, and I will admit that I was somewhat anxious that it would show that I'm not as industrious as I think I am... but never fear, I just checked and potplant did 6 referrals, TOT did 8, I did 14. I'm as industrious as both of them combined... and I should add, I also answer 95% of the phone calls.

HAH! I rock :)

Just got this message on my work voicemail... the caller was an older sounding female...

"I got your message ... I’ve been given your number ... that you would give me help, but I know the people who gave it me are LIARS... because ... the bloody thing... I don’t want... I want help, I don’t want to listen to your bloody charity nonsense. This came from someone called Jeff Kennett ... some depression checklist. It’s a joke! They’ve got a bloody cheek to make people waste the phone calls... if they’re not serious how DARE they!?"

That was it, verbatim.

The whole day has kind of felt like that... agitated, confused, and only getting half the message.

I no longer work at the Cancer Center and that is a happy and beautiful thing indeed!! ( text )

So much happening in my world, i just thought I'd squeeze in some journalling... Cub is coming to stay the night and will be here in about 20 minutes max, so I will write till he gets here :o)

I spoke to my boss yesterday and told him I was leaving, he took it really well, said he was happy for me and it will be impossible to replace me, which was really nice to hear - even if it's not exactly true! I then got to send the very happy email to the whole centre telling them I am pulling up stumps and heading to greener pastures on the other side of the fence (where do these cliches come from??)... that felt really good!!

I went straight from work last night down the coast to Port Kembla to visit the lovely R and her new(old/new/old/new) beau, Z... i was really interested to meet Z, having heard quite a bit about her over the last some months, most not terribly flattering really, but lately it has been incredibly positive, and in the space of 6 or so weeks they have gone from not really having much to do with each other to living together and that really scared me for R, because it's just so quick and I don't want her hurt... so I was a little trepidatious about the visit and about Z in general... but I'm so glad I went, Z is funny and down to earth and seems really genuine, and I have never seen R so happy, she has this huge grin on her face constantly, and they are in that gorgeous honeymoon shag-happy stage where they can't keep their hands or mouths off each other, and their house is full of laughter and this gorgeous happy energy radiating in every room... it made me feel good just being near them :o) So yeah, last night was good, we just hung out, Z cooked us a fabbo spinach and fetta pie for dinner and we chatted and laughed and smoked and just chilled... and then i got to listen to them having sex at the other end of the house, which was quite amusing... sounded like it was good!!

This morning we hung around some more, popped across the road and met "the boys" as R calls them, the lovely gay boys that live across from her, and had a cup of tea on their verandah, which was nice... I've been hearing about the boys for ages so it was good to finally meet them, and their famed verandah also lived up to expectations!

R & Z headed off to somewhere past Canberra at lunchtime to visit Z's family (eek... inlaws!!) and I headed up to Bulli and met S&T for lunch at Bulli Beach, which was lovely to see them and the puppies were there so that was nice too... we got burgers and sat in the howling gale force icy cold wind and ate and laughed and chatted, eventually the wind got too much and we were all so frozen we had to call it quits though, so they headed home and I headed further up the coast, to my next stop!!

S&L have just got a puppy, he arrived from SA yesterday... a Groodle (Golden Retreiver x Poodle), his name is Barney, he's 9 weeks old and GORGEOUS!!!! Very smoochy snuggle puppy and so soft and cuddly, love at first sight!!!! I so want a puppy now, more than ever...

and i have to finish this later coz C is here and there are better things to do than type!!! *G*